by Brad Singletary, LCSW | Aug 12, 2026
You made a joke about it. Maybe at lunch with your girlfriends. Maybe in a group text. Something about how it was over before you got comfortable. Something about how you could have finished folding the towels. The table laughed. You laughed. It was funny in the way...
by Brad Singletary, LCSW | Aug 6, 2026
A man sat across from me and listed everything he was owed. A wife who appreciated him. Parents who showed up when he was ten. A boss with eyes. A body that didn’t ache getting out of bed. One run of luck that finally broke his way instead of over his head. He...
by Brad Singletary, LCSW | May 16, 2024
Fighting your day is exhausting, and most of the time you lose anyway. The bad driver who cuts you off, the meeting that runs long, the plan that falls apart before noon. You can rage against all of it, or you can decide to move with it instead of against it....
by Brad Singletary, LCSW | Apr 19, 2024
I spend my professional life trying to understand people. It is literally what I do. Someone sits across from me and I am working to see the world through their eyes, to trace the thread from where they are back to where it started. I am good at it, and I genuinely...
by Brad Singletary, LCSW | Apr 12, 2024
I have failed at this. More times than I want to count. So when I say this, I’m not talking down from some high ground I’ve always occupied. I’m talking from the mess I’ve made when I missed it. Women often lead with the surface layer. What...
